Generosity does not come naturally to us. Watch children in a sandbox or siblings at a dinner table or an inpatient infant with her mother. Generosity is taught and like faith, caught.

I’m not sure when I went from eagerly awaiting my future to constantly catastrophizing it. It’s not as constant as it was - thanks to time, therapy, 12-step wisdom and Brené Brown. Back in the day, I was the “Worst Case Scenario Planner.”